Til;dr never trust MSM. Even when POC literally die beside them, there’s always a young white woman available to be propped up to support their narrative, even against her will.

EDIT-ORIGINAL TITLE: As we all hear more stories out of the latest conflict about Shani Louk, it’s a good time to remember the predominantly false narratives we received about Jessica Lynch during the Iraq war.

Edit-Added Content Warnings, marked NSFW

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    omg, i remember hearing about Jessica Lynch. of course i never heard her testimony of events, only the highly dramatized, media-frenzy version. what a stupid and disgusting country.

    truck goes wrong way, crashes, she’s unconcious and wakes up at civilian hospital. doctors / nurses care for her and when she’s stable, they try to return her to the US military, who fires on the ambulance carrying her. so instead they keep her at the hospital, where a local gremlin has ingratiated himself with the occupiers and tells them a made up story about the iraqi military beating her up. so the SPECIAL FORCES BADASS TEAM 69 raid an unresisting civilian hospital, corral all the staff, and record themselves carrying her out.

    all the media stories were about how she was sexually assaulted and tortured, and literally none of that happened. and the military was too trigger happy to accept her return via ambulance.

    and they made a movie where she was apparently doing captain america shit and resisting “capture” (never captured). when she came out against that portrayal, she started getting death threats from americans calling her a liar.

    • OprahsedCreatureOPEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      Interviewed by Diane Sawyer, Lynch claimed, concerning the media and the Pentagon: “They used me to symbolize all this stuff. It’s wrong. I don’t know why they filmed [the rescue mission] or why they say these things.” She also stated “I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees. And that’s the last I remember.”

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        I remember when that movie came out. The advertising blitz was in full force. I used to go to the cinema with my pals about twice a month. They ran the trailer for that movie for months.

        • OprahsedCreatureOPEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Which movie? I just read about the interview and multiple testimonies from staff at the hospital she recovered at.

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Yeah every single lib was certain that Lynch had been horrifically brutalized and then heroically rescued from the barbarians by Our Troops

    Westerners love titillating themselves with increasingly unhinged fantasies of sexual violence, ring any bells?

    • OprahsedCreatureOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      By invoking a Palestinian (Jessica Lynch)

      “rules-based”

      michael-laugh

      Best comment all day, comrade

      stalin-approval

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Joe Bageant, 2004: Sleepwalking to Fallujah:

    35 years ago […] there was little, if any, mythologizing of Vietnam’s warriors, much less patriotic news spasms ejaculated by embedded reporters between the commercials. News was duller then. Certainly not as entertaining as the Jessica Lynch story of a fetching, innocent young blonde wounded while supposedly blazing away at the face of evil itself, only to suffer multiple wounds, then be rescued from some fly-ridden Iraqi hospital (more radio crackling and gunfire please) by her comrades in arms. After this stirring rescue we were served the titillating dessert of the subsequent doctor’s report: She was sodomized by the sweaty stinking bastards! In the television news business it just does not get any better than that. Pass the corn chips, please.

    With television news like that, who needs a rational explanation as to why we are at war? The entertainment value alone is worth it. And therein lies the problem for those of us in that last generation of people who gained most of what they know from reading: We need a tangible explanation why we are spilling so much blood and bullion in that god forsaken desert pisshole. Still no answer. Or no new one at least. Oh, there is the standard line that goes, “We are defending democracy and liberating a people from oppression.” That old saw was getting mighty dull even back in my day, when it was used to explain Vietnam.

    I cannot remember a time when the American public ever asked any important questions of its national leadership. In the American scheme of things, that is the media’s job, media frames the question and the public asks it, after having been appropriately bludgeoned over the head with it.